Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-20

JUSTICE WIN. II. WOoDs, VI t"o
Supreme Court Of the United States. died
at his home in Washington last Satur-
day. President Cleveland will FIJI the
vacancy by appointment.
In a recent interview ex-senator Cam
den said he would not be candidate
for Governor of West Virginia or any
other office. He said his mind was fully
made up on this subject.
IT is announced that the Baltimore s.
Ohio Railroad is surveying q new
route from Philadelphia to New York.
If 1t cannot get to New York on good
terms over existing lines it will build
its own road.
LAST week 0.O00 immigrants landed
at New York, not counting those at
other ports. How many will make
good citizens and how many will be
worthless membranes and criminals
the reports do not state.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sioners are hearing arguments this week
for the suspension ofthe long-and-short-
haul clause as to several railroads. We
hope they won't suspend it unless the
railroads quit gouging the people under
cover Of the inter state act.
OUR Republican friends thought they
were playing a sharp game by keeping
hands off in the late Senatorial fight.
We don't believe the affair has turned
out as they would wish, however, for
the Democrats are rallying around Sen
a.or Faulkner in the old-fashioned way.
The New York folks are very indig-
nant at laws which forbid the sale Of
liquors on Sunday, and all classes are
clamsring for the repeal of the laws
which enforce morality. Well, if the
New Workers insist on going to perdi-
ton we suppose nothing will stop them.
THERE is some talk of commercial
union between the United States and
Canada. The sort of union that should
be made is the union under the Consti-
tuition that will admit Canada as part
of the United States, free and independ-
ent of Great Britain or any other foreign
power. The union will be made sooner
or later, but no time is better than the
present.
THERE seems to be but one opinion
expressed by our State exchanges and
by the metropolitan newspapers that
know anything in regard to Senator
Faulkner-and that Is that he is a good
man for his exalted place. He will
start in the Senate with the good opinion
of his constituents and his colleagues.
and he will retain those good opinions
by his craftsmanship and his fidelity to
the interests Of the people.
\ VERY funny mistake was made in
several States last Saturday. Somehow
or other report was telegraphed over
the country that an heir was born at the
White House and Mr.. Cleveland was a
Pa. In Alabama and Georgia public
meetings were held in honor of the event,
resolutions of congratulation passed,
and so forth. Where the joke comes In
is the fact that no infant yet makes
music in the Presidents house.
Mr.. EMANUEL SCHAEFFER, the gentle
man who was elected County Superin-
tendent of Free Schools on Tuesday, has
been for many years a school teacher,
and will undoubtedly make an excellent
superintendent. He is spoken of in the
highest terms by those who know him,
and while Shepherdsto wn people natu-
rally preferred and voted for a Shep-
herdstown mar, at the same time they
are glad that the mantle of Mr.. Hess
has fallen on so worthy shoulders.
The prohibitionists OF Iowa are taking
considerable comfort out of the official
report of the Secretary of State as to the
practical results of prohibition for the
past year. The law has been we'll OBJ
served, and crime of all kinds greatly
lessened. In fifty-five of the ninety
five counties of the State there was not
a single commitment to the county Jail.
The penitentiaries are showing rapid
decrease in the number of their inmates
and altogether the law is working most
beneficially.
The so called era of fraternal feeling
and unprejudiced affection between the
northern soldiers and those of the South,
which has been worked pretty hard the
last year or two, las recently received
several severe setbacks. The business
has been overdone, and The natural con-
sequence ensues. The ex.C onfederates
of Gen. Pickett's division were some
time ago approached with view to bav-
ing joint review of themselves and
their Federal opponents on the battle
field Of Gettysburg. Arrangements
were coEsummated, and Gen. Pickett's
men proposed to erect q monument on